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Big Data: The Role of the Data Engineer in Businesses

By Dick Weisinger

As businesses begin to take advantage of big data and associated data-driven technologies, there is an increasing demand to fill roles within companies that are focused on managing and analyzing data.  Specifically, the roles that seem to have seen the…

Software Defined Network (SDN): Virtualization of Networking

By Dick Weisinger

Software-defined Networking (SDN) is a new method for defining, building and managing networks.  SDN separates the workings of a network into something called  a “control plane” and a “forwarding plane”.  The advantage of the approach is that decouples the ‘control’…

Big Data: Businesses Procrastinate with Data Lakes

By Dick Weisinger

Data silos have long been a nemesis of businesses trying to fully utilize the data which they collect.  Recently ‘data lakes’ have been proposed as a solution for eliminating the silos.  The data lake is an aggregate of data with…

Cloud Computing: Government Agencies Bypass Savings

By Dick Weisinger

The cloud could save the government billions if only they were more open to cloud computing. An AT&T study found that the US Federal Government could save nearly $19 billion annually by adopting cloud technology. The government has experimented with…

Big Data: Insights into Crowd Thinking and Cashing in on the Stock Market

By Dick Weisinger

Researchers at the Warwick Business School have found a connection between search engine trends and real life decision making.  The results are similar to earlier research that tries to predict the scale of the outbreak of the flu or the popularity…